Video Competition
Each year a video competition is held to showcase MRSEC-related research in a short video. Any Brandeis-affiliated undergraduate, graduate student, post-doc, staff or faculty member is eligible to enter and make a video about Brandeis-MRSEC research.
Are you really excited about sharing your research, have a creative way to communicate your science, or just like winning prizes? Submit your 90-second videos that showcase MRSEC-related research and possibly win a prize! The 2024 MRSEC video competition is now closed. Check back in Summer 2025 for 2025 competition details.
Any Brandeis-affiliated undergraduate, graduate student, post-doc, staff, or faculty person is eligible to enter and make a video about Brandeis-MRSEC research. You do not need to be a MRSEC member to win. The top videographers will receive exciting prizes so now is your chance to use your best videography skills to share exciting MRSEC-related findings with the world!
For any questions pertaining to the MRSEC Video Competition, email azare@brandeis.edu.
2024 winner
2022 Winners
2022 Winner: Graduate student Bibi Najma for "Spatiotemporal Control of Fluidization in 3D Active Networks"
2022 Runner Up: Postdoc Dr. Amélie Chardac for "Investigating pattern formation via mechanochemical feedback-loops"
2021 Winners
2021 Winner: Graduate student Zahra Zarei for "Active Nematic Confined to Annuli"
2021 Runner Up: SMURF student Sungwon Cho for "Photo-regulated self-assembly of DNA duplexes"
2019 Winners
2019 Winner: Graduate student Farri Mohajerani for "Cargo Encapsulation by Nanoshells"
2019 Runner Up: Post-doc Dr. Simon Merminod for "Artificial Butterflies: Characterizing Interfacial Binding to Design"
2019 Runner Up: Graduate student Ali Aghvami for "XScreen Chip"
2018 Winners
2018 Winner: Kang Liu for “Inferring Capsid Assembly Kinetics from Experimental Observation”
2018 Runner Up: Maria Eleni Moustaka for "Exploring the Non-Linear Dynamics of Chemical Oscillator Networks"
2018 Runner Up: Dhruv Dang for "Investigating the Interference of Influenza Viral Fusion by Antibody 'HC19'"
2018 Runner Up: Ashanti Sallee for "Enzyme-Instructed Self-Assembly For Inhibiting Prostate Cancer"
2017 Winners
2017 Winner: Shashank Shekhar for "Microfluidics-assisted high resolution microscopy as a tool to study cytoskeleton dynamics”
2017 Runner Up: Dr. Salvatore Alioto for "Actin Cable Reconstitution"
2017 Runner Up: Gabriel Bronk for "Computer Simulations of Chromosomes"
2017 Runner Up: Dr. Julian Eskin for "Force Generation through Polymerization"
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